It was between 8.40-9.15pm on the evening of 29th
January 2010. Thomas was at the hospital where he works in Letterkenny,
Donegal. He was standing outside having a breath of fresh air on a break from
his work. It was the night of the full moon and the stars could be seen through
gaps in the low partial cloud. It was also quite windy.

Thomas was looking up at the full moon and watching the clouds
drift by. Suddenly he saw a strange object come into view over the top of the
building alongside him, almost overhead but a bit to the North. It appeared to
be a flattened disc shape and was glowing white. Thomas describes it as looking
like a “round hole of daylight punched through the night sky”. It appeared to
be about 10 metres in diameter. The object was a short distance above the low
level cloud layer, and was initially travelling against the wind. Thomas knows
this as the clouds were travelling in the opposite direction to it. Also he
could see the clouds passing beneath the object so it was clearly solid and not
a searchlight hitting the base of the clouds.

Photograph taken at the sighting location looking up at the roof of the building, with
the UFO drawn on top by the witness in the position it first appeared:

The UFO initially travelled East for about 300 metres. Rich
estimates it moved between 70-80 mph. Then it suddenly came to an abrupt halt.
After hovering still for a short time it then flashed extremely fast before
shining a beam of yellow-white light downward onto the top of a nearby large
cloud. The beam lasted for several seconds. It repeated this a few times.

Photograph of the sighting location with
the UFO drawn on top in the position it moved to initially:

After this astounding display it then moved in the opposite
direction back towards his location. Again it stopped, flashed, and shone the
beam downwards onto the clouds several times. Over the next 15-20 minutes it
repeated this entire sequence five or six times. It appeared to be searching
for something or scanning the clouds.

Photograph of the sighting location with
the UFO drawn on top in the various positions that it moved to:

Witness drawing showing the movement
pattern of the UFO:

Photograph of the sighting location with the UFO drawn on top in the various positions it moved to:

Thomas was amazed and excited by what he was witnessing. At one
point he saw the light beam break through a gap in the cloud and continue
shining downwards into the sky beneath.

Thomas was aware that the night staff were about to start their
shift. After 10 minutes of observing the UFO alone, he went in and found one of
the staff named Julia. He asked her to come outside and also see the the
object.

Julia returned outside with Thomas and they both then watched the
UFO for a further 5 minutes. Unfortunately it was then time for Thomas to hand
over work duty to Julia and two other staff Kerry and Veronica. They went back
inside to meet up with the others. However when they told them about the
object, Kerry and Veronica were intrigued and wanted to see it for themselves.

Thomas first took Kerry outside to watch it for several minutes,
then he, Julia and Veronica headed outside again for several minutes. While
outside with Veronica, she claimed to have seen a bright beam of light come
down from the sky while she was driving towards the hospital.

It was then unfortunately time for Thomas to give the official
hand over. He watched the object for a final couple of minutes. Then he headed
inside with the night staff to do the hand over. This took about 15-20 minutes.
Once it was sorted out he then ran back outside to see if the UFO was still
present, but it could no longer be seen.

Sadly he and the other staff did not have cameras or camera phones
on them at the time such as they were uniformed for work. Thomas thought about
this later on and wished he had been able to video the object so he had some
lasting evidence of what took place.

After the incident Thomas got the impression that the other
witnesses did not want to talk about it so he never spoke about it with them
after that evening. It has played on his mind ever since.

Sighting Analysis

This is an absolutely stunning sighting and almost certainly of
something out of the ordinary. The object was clearly under control and making
intelligent manoeuvres, performing the same sequence numerous times. The fact
that it shone down a beam of light onto the clouds is impressive and shows that
as well as being self-luminescent it had its own distinct light or energy
sources. It was clearly not a lit inflatable of any kind due to the movements
it performed and was under powered control as it flew against the direction of
the wind as well as hovered motionless in the sky. As Thomas mentioned, it
could not have been a search light or other ground lighting hitting the clouds
as he actually saw the low level cloud drifting under the object and
temporarily obscure it from view. It was clearly not a conventional aircraft of
any kind. Could it have been some kind of secret military craft? This seems
very unlikely, military drones are build for stealth, so they would have no
reason to build a device that glowed brightly and was clearly visible from the
ground. Also for what purpose would they be shining a light beam onto the
clouds many times in succession?

I feel there is a good possibility that this was a genuine
sighting of an advanced ET craft. UFOs are often seen to glow brightly after
dark. This is probably due to the energy field that they project in order to
manoeuvre in the atmosphere. We will probably never know the reason why the
craft was in the area at that time or why it was shining the beam of light down
onto the clouds. Perhaps it was monitoring them in some way or even extracting
moisture from them.

Thomas does not believe that the other witnesses who were there
that night would want to talk with me about the incident, so at present we only
have his excellent testimony to go on. However this is one of the most
impressive sightings I have been informed of in quite a while.